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Wednesday, 17 May 2017

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Proto-geólogos en Somosaguas 

Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [23:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (37 visits) info
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Una año más Somosaguas-Norte ha acogido a los estudiantes de la asignatura de "Paleontología General" (hoy el grupo A) para la realización de un práctica de excavación en un yacimiento cenozoico real. No hay muchas universidades del mundo que puedan decir que entre sus bondades se encuentra el disponer de un yacimiento paleontológico dentro de su propio campus, y menos aún las que disfrutan

The Unsung Waterfalls of Yosemite Valley 

Geotripper [20:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (25 visits) info
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One takes their chance when deciding to visit Yosemite Valley in the springtime. The storms of winter are never quite done by then, and you may find yourself in a valley full of clouds. That's where I found myself a week back, touring the Yosemite region with my students. It had been two weeks of no precipitation, but on Saturday, the storms came back for a day. Sentinel Falls (left)

How to set up a tileserver using Tilestache, Gunicorn and Nginx 

Digital Geography [19:59:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (36 visits) info
Tiled map layers are an important part of the digital mapping stack, since Google and others introduced their slippy maps quite some time ago. There’s a huge ecosystem of (open source) software for creating [...]

So you’re going hiking for the first time 

Magma Cum Laude [19:00:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (233 visits) info
In the spirit of my "So you're going camping for the first time" post - which came about as a result of a Twitter conversation about racial and economic barriers to outdoor experiences - here's a collection [...]

Conversations on being a woman in Geoscience 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [17:05:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
While at this year’s General Assembly in Vienna, Keri McNamara, one of the EGU’s press assistants, spoke to a number of female geoscientists (at different career stages), to get their perspective on what [...]

A Capella Science - More Than Birds 

Koprolitos [10:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
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A Capella Science es un proyecto del físico canadiense Tim Blais en el que aúna su pasión por la ciencia con el interés que siempre ha despertado la música en él. Así, inspirado en Weird Al Yankovic, [...]

A new video of the giant Kurbu-Tash landslide in Kyrgyzstan 

The Landslide Blog [08:52:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
AKI Press has uploaded a new video to Youtube showing the extremely large Kurbu-Tash landslide in Kyrgyzstan, which has destroyed nearly 60

What is a clean lab? 

Wooster Geologists [04:18:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
Chapel Hill, NC – Ben Kumpf (’18) and I are at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to use their lab facilities for isotope analysis. We’re working with small amounts of sample and the [...]

Earthquake activity in Tjörnes Fracture Zone (TFZ) 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [00:35:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (611 visits) info
For the past month (or so) there has been a constant earthquake activity close to Flatey island on the Tjörnes Fracture Zone (TFZ). This earthquake swarm has not been strong, with majority of the earthquakes [...]

Researchers track groundwater loss during drought in California’s Central Valley 

Geospace [19:16:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
A new study from researchers at UCLA and the University of Houston reveals estimates of significant groundwater loss in California’s Central Valley during the recent drought and sparks questions of [...]

2017 National Schools Geology Challenge quick fire quiz – ANSWERS! 

Geological Society of London blog [18:07:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (643 visits) info
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The results of the National Schools Geology Challenge final quiz round! Continue reading →

Dinos in Pop Culture - Animal Kingdom: Part 2 

The Geology P.A.G.E. [16:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info
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In the previous post of the Dinos in Pop Culture - Animal Kingdom: Part 1, we looked at the dinosaurs in Animal Kingdom that were outside of the part of the park called DinoLand U.S.A.. Today we are going into [...]

Book review: Maja Säfström’s "Animals of a Bygone Era: An Illustrated Compendium" 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [09:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (41 visits) info
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“Dinosaurs have intentionally been left out of this book to give some attention to less popular – but still fascinating – creatures that once lived on this planet.” Thus begins Maja Säfström’s [...]

Hiking the Carbon Canyon/Lava Chuar Route in Grand Canyon 

Earthly Musings [04:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
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Been on many trips and writing from Waikiki where my sister will be married on Wednesday. However, here is a second installment from my first river trip in Grand Canyon in April of this year.One of the most [...]

Dumbo Octopus caught on film! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [03:12:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (24 visits) info
Yesterday the re-entry camera was coming up from the bottom of the ocean and it caught footage of a Dumbo octopus Grimpoteuthis sp.. These unique [...]
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